Wine cask
A barrel of wine maturing in storage — a slow, kept supply improving in the dark.
A wine cask in a dream is the dream's image of a slow, kept supply improving in the dark. The wine is not being drunk; it is becoming what it will be drunk as. The dream brings the cask when something in your life — a project waiting for its season, a relationship in a quiet developmental phase, a self being formed by years rather than by events — is currently in storage and is changing by being left alone. A cask opened at the right year is the dream affirming the patient keeping. A cask opened too early, the wine still raw, is the dream noting that the supply was real and the patience required to receive it has fallen short, and the value of the storage has not yet been reached.